Why are people opposed to nuclear power plaints?

Question

DO NOT try to convince me that they are bad. Just tell me why people are so ignorant.

Answer 1

There is a fear of an inability to dispose properly of nuclear waste

Certainly we can safely store it until such time we launch it harmlessly to evaporate in space

Nuclear power plants do not slow down at night so it continues to produce at a time when consumption is low and we can recharge our vehicles with otherwise wasted energy.

We could very easily in a short time make is so the mid east is sitting on nothing but worthless gooey black muck that nobody wants.

Time to wake up

Answer 2

They are arfaid of them. They claim that the rods are dangerous. Which they are not is disposed of propery. They worry about Chernobyl type acciedents. Something like Chernobly will never happen in the US. We have better safeguards than Russia. When Chernobyl happened Russia was on its last legs, they didn't have the money to keep it up and keep it safe. We have never had a problem with a nuclear site except 3 Mile Island, which although an accident had little or no ill effects contrary to pop culture.

Although 25,000 people lived within five miles (8 km) of the site at the time of the accident,[2] no identifiable injuries due to radiation occurred, and a government report concluded that "the projected number of excess fatal cancers due to the accident... is approximately one."

Nuclear, is the greenest of all energies. It gives off no green house gasses, the supply is nearly limitless. While solar or wind is technically more green, only certain parts of the country can take advantage of those. Nuclear can be used everywhere and the moratoreum needs to be ended.

Answer 3

Excellent question. Answer is, they don't know. It's the big bugaboo of 'nuclear'. Despite the fact that the number of nuclear reactors in the U.S. Navy's ships is in the double digits with a perfect safety rating and as a result the technology is light years beyond what it was 40 years ago and despite the fact that the nuclear reactors in the U.S. are the safest and best monitored in the world and despite the fact that people are dying to mine coal for no reason, I can't answer your question.

They'll point to Chernobyl as though that has any bearing on nuclear plants in the United States. Tree huggers have no comparative thinking. They don't recognize the difference between nuclear plant management under a bankrupt and technologically backward communist regime and that under the United States.

The only real issue is the waste. While there's not much of it, we need to figure out what to do with it. But that's a challenge and will be addressed.

Answer 4

The mining of yellow cake (uranium ore) is a hazardous and toxic operation. It is mined from the ground as is coal. Due to it's high radiation, it is a known cause of various types of cancer. It is mined as a rock bearing ore, then crushed to a dust in a mill, then it is pumped with various acids and raffinates to settlling tanks to extract the ore from the rock dust. This is called leaching. It is done with large quantities of very toxic chemicals. These chemicals occasionally get spilt on the ground and can find their way into the regions ground water, affecting it's quality. All the pipework, tanks, pumps, mill liners and other equipment used in the hydro-metallurgical process can no longer be recycled as they are now contaminated with cancer causing pathogens. They can't be burnt or smelted as their fumes would release the radioactive particles into the atmosphere. They can't be transported anywhere as particles may blow off onto a passing vehicle on the highway and end up deposited in your neighbourhood. The acids, liquors and raffinates are recycled untill they are no longer useful. At this point they are so toxic that any contact is shielded by wearing a safety suit. This concoction is then pumped into massive shallow, vinyl lined evaporation ponds. Some of the toxins evaporate into the air with the liquid. Most of the solids are left behind to be scraped up by bulldozer. This produces a lot of dust and can be blown by the wind all over the environment.It is then mixed with cement and low grade rock ore to make concrete and pumped back underground to fill the old unused mining tunnels. The problem is that it is possible for the toxins to leach out into the ground water. Not only is it poisonous but radioactive as well.
The yellow cake itself goes through several processes to remove acid residue from the final yellow cake product. It is then placed into drums and the drums then placed in a special indestructable shipping container to be shipped to an enrichment plant. I am not familiar with that process, but I believe it too produces various toxic gasses, fumes, dusts and liquids.
Now you have enriched uranium. You have just polluted and contaminated many hundreds of acres of land and rendered them useless for human habitation for the next thousand years just getting to this point.
The Russians have a couple of nuclear powered subs laying on the bottom of several oceans, leaking their highly toxic fuel cells into the environment. Chernobyl is still spewing forth its deadly fumes and affects countries as far away as Scotland.
Even if you do have the perfect design to house a nuclear reactor, it will still be a target for terrorists or for an attacking nation. One power station the size of three mile island could contaminate thousands of square miles of land if hit by an enemy missile.
Also, there is no guarantee that the yellow cake mined for the production of electricity wouldn't be used in more sinister ways such as thermo-nuclear devices. I am not an ignorant greenie. I work in the construction industry and build all sorts of plants. I am actually assisting in the pillaging of our natural resources, but I don't believe we should dig the uranium out of the ground. There is an alternative to every one of it's uses.

Answer 5

Because people consider themselves too busy to do all the research and fact-finding. Instead, they respond emotionally or go by what Cousin Fred tells them. Or, if they have checked it out thoroughly, they may still consider, despite France's success with it, that it is too powerful a force to trust to infallible humans or terrorist attack.

Answer 6

Uh, if you don't want to know why people oppose them, then why did you ask?

If you ask, then you're saying that you want to know.

My biggest objections are the waste, which is deadly forever, and the fact that where I live they were always wanting to build them directly on top of a major earthquake fault (San Andreas, you may have heard of it), thus guaranteeing major disaster WITH nuclear radiation.

Oh, but you didn't want to hear why people opposed them, you just want people to tell you you're right when you're wrong.

Lie much?

Answer 7

Ignorance is lack of knowledge. People fear the unknown. So they don't want to have to deal with it.

Answer 8

I'll stick with the basic truth already stated by so many others. Because of IGNORANCE, period.

Answer 9

1. property values decrease
2. frady/scary/cats
3. mutant ninga turtles
4. see number one

Answer 10

same reason they belive in global warming